Improvement in combined towel-rack and wall-protector



E. PULLAN.

COMBINED TOWEL-RACK'SAND WALL PROTECTORS No.189.260 Patented April 3, 1877.

W|TNESSES 1 |NVENTOR I $6M my.

ATTOR N EYJXu NJETERS, PHOT0 LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

TE STATES EDWIN PULLAN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TOWEL-RACK AND WALL-PROTECTOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,260, dated April 3, 1877; application filed February 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN PULLAN, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Wall-Protectors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a front view of my invention applied to a wash-stand, and Fig. 2, a side view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in Wall-protectors; and consists in providing the back of a wash-stand with grooved guides, having springs or catches for holding in any desired position a sliding frame, carrying a wallprotecting sheet, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, A designates an ordinary wash-stand, provided on its back with Vertically-grooved guides A A, (shown in detail and cross-section in Fig. 4,) and B designates the frame of my wall-protector, which is provided with vertical beads or tongues b b, that slide in said guides A A. The upper ends of the side bars of said frame are provided with eyes or staples c c, in which set the ends of a flexible detachable metal rod, 0, extending across the front of said frame B, at the top thereof. From said rod 0 hangs a wall-protecting sheet, D, of cloth or other suitable material that covers the entire space Within said frame B. This sheet is buttoned or otherwise detachably secured to the lower cross-bar of said frame B. The top piece E of said frame B is provided with two projecting knobs, F F, which rest upon the raised backboard of said wash-stand A, when said frame is in its lowest position, as shown in Fig. 2 When said frame B is raised to its highest position, as shown in Fig. 1, sheet D protects the wall behind it from being discolored by water spattered upward from the wash-bowl on said wash-stand A. Said frame is held in such position by rubber or other springs H H, set into guides A A, as shown in detail in Fig. 4., and bearing against tongues or heads I) b. When manual pressure is applied to the top of said frame B, the said springs will yield, allowing said frame to he slid down behind said wash-stand.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wash stand provided with grooved guides A A, having catches H H, in combination with the sliding frame B, carrying the wall-protecting sheet D, substantially as described, andfor the purpose set forth.

2. The sliding frame B, which is provided with rod 0, staples c a, removable wall-protecting sheet D, lifting-knobs F F, towel-rack G, in combination with a wash-stand which is provided with strips A A and stops H H, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN PULLAN. Witnesses:

R1011. KOEPPE, Ross BROWN. 

